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How to download a Youtube video thumbnail on Linux.

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Downloading a thumbnail of a Youtube video on Linux is very easy. This can be done using the youtube-dl script. Use this youtube-dl command to list all thumbnails for this video. ┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Pictures] └──╼ $youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ttKUEI3rtM –list-thumbnails [youtube] 0ttKUEI3rtM: Downloading webpage [info] Thumbnails for 0ttKUEI3rtM: ID width height URL 0 168 94 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0ttKUEI3rtM/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEYCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDCwgBFQAAiEIYAXAB&rs=AOn4CLCtzil9D33ps4rh6SWgoECSwl7PZg 1 196 110 … Read more

How to create thumbnails of dds files in Ubuntu or Mint.

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Thumbnailing for the DirectDraw Surface file format is not supported in Linux with the Caja file manager, but this is easy to fix. The /usr/share/thumbnailers/ directory contains all of the thumbnailer files that automatically create thumbnails in the file manager for Caja. Just create a file named dds.thumbnailer and put this in it. 2 3 … Read more